If you’ve never heard of microchips, you’re about to, because banks and credit card companies are beginning to add them to more of their cards in an attempt to increase security. Retailers are also beginning to add more microchip readers to their card reader devices, in order to help shoppers… Continue reading
A Waiter and Two Waitresses Get a $200 Tip Waiters and waitresses are among the hardest working, lowest paid Americans in the workforce. As tipped employees, their minimum wage is set at $2.13 an hour (you can thank the other NRA, the National Restaurant Association, for that). Granted, the tips combined… Continue reading
The Australian psychedelic indie rock band Tame Impala has taken to their Facebook page to ask fans if they should allow their music to be licensed for a commercial. They wrote: “got offered $100,000 for a song to be on a mobile phone ad. What should i do fans????” At… Continue reading
No one knows how long the government shutdown will last, but how long investors think it might last could have a real economic effect by itself. Although perhaps not in the way you might imagine. First, the numbers: Morgan Stanley’s Chief US Economist Vincent Reinhart appeared on Bloomberg and revealed… Continue reading
